Simple Screen Recorder (SSR), a Qt desktop recorder for Linux, was updated to version 0.3.0 today, bringing profile support, a new, more flexible OpenGL recording system, native support for mono microphones and other interesting changes.

The tool comes with basically all the features you need in a screencast app: record the entire screen (with multi-monitor support), record a fixed rectangle, follow the cursor, record OpenGL applications (which can be used to record games), record audio input (PulseAudio, JACK and ALSA), options to scale the video, to record (or not) the cursor, to pause/resume the recording and so on. It even has experimental live streaming support.

Simple Screen Recorder can record your screen using any container (MP4, MKV, OGG, WebM and so on) and audio/video codec (H.264, VP8, Theora for videos and Vorbis, mp3, AAC, etc. for audio) supported by libav, with configurable bit rate, etc.

Here are a few screenshots with the latest Simple Screen Recorder 0.3.0:

Below you can watch a quick Simple Screen Recorder demo video recorded using... the tool itself (the video is old, but it should be enough to get an idea on what the app can do and to checkout the quality of the screencasts recorded using this tool):

For more screencasts created using Simple Screen Recorder, check out the latest videos from the WebUpd8 YouTube channel - I've been using Simple Screen Recorder to record the WebUpd8 screencasts for about a year now.

Install Simple Screen Recorder in Ubuntu / Linux Mint

Ubuntu / Linux Mint (and derivatives) users can install Simple Screen Recorder by using its official PPA. To add the PPA and install the application, use the following commands: